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Book Deadly Greed

Download or read book Deadly Greed written by Clark Cox and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maceo McEachern was well-liked and respected in his community: business owner, entrepreneur, the first African American elected to office since Reconstruction. April 12, 1991, he and his mother were shotgunned to death in her home in Hamlet, NC. Clark Cox, journalist and friend of the victims, gives us the story: antecedents of the murders and the aftermath.

Book The Hamlet Fire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bryant Simon
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2020-07-23
  • ISBN : 1469661373
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Hamlet Fire written by Bryant Simon and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1929
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1304 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book The Railway Clerk

Download or read book The Railway Clerk written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richmond County and the Seaboard Air Line Railway

Download or read book Richmond County and the Seaboard Air Line Railway written by Stephen Edwin Massengill and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richmond County and the Seaboard Air Line Railway presents vintage photographs by talented photographer Frederick "Frank" Marchant (1872-1942). The images document the bustling railroad town of Hamlet and the county seat of Rockingham in North Carolina during the first quarter of the 20th century. Marchant, a native of Pennsylvania, arrived in Hamlet in the early 1900s. By 1907, he was working as a commercial photographer and as the official "picture taker" for the railroad company. Marchant developed a keen eye for interesting subjects, and some of his work took on a photojournalistic quality. His photographs, many of which he published as postcards, record rail activity in the Hamlet area, which became the "hub" of the Seaboard Air Line.

Book Report

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Corporation Commission for the Biennial Period

Download or read book Report of the Corporation Commission for the Biennial Period written by North Carolina Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Corporation Commission

Download or read book Report of the Corporation Commission written by North Carolina. Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1933-1934 includes also Orders of Utilities Commission from January 1 to October 31, 1934.

Book Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : North Carolina. Corporation Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Report written by North Carolina. Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Corporation Commission for the Year Ending

Download or read book Annual Report of the Corporation Commission for the Year Ending written by North Carolina. Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pocket List of Railroad Officials

Download or read book The Pocket List of Railroad Officials written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biennial Report

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  • Author : North Carolina. Corporation Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1038 pages

Download or read book Biennial Report written by North Carolina. Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Awards     Third Division  National Railroad Adjustment Board

Download or read book Awards Third Division National Railroad Adjustment Board written by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board and published by . This book was released on with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1192 pages

Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: